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Trump: "I'm TAKING THE OIL, we're taking the oil." (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jan 2020 OP
Mad with power and unchecked. He will continue to get worse. Claritie Pixie Jan 2020 #1
+1 n/t area51 Jan 2020 #15
Next Ohiogal Jan 2020 #2
What a Jackanapes ! Baked Potato Jan 2020 #3
Who are we "taking" the oil from?.....I can't listen to him. AJT Jan 2020 #4
Syria. SergeStorms Jan 2020 #8
"I war crime, we war crime, it's all war crimes, war crimes" RockRaven Jan 2020 #5
Even if it wasn't a war crime lapfog_1 Jan 2020 #6
Simpsons nailed it ages ago: Grokenstein Jan 2020 #7
THIS malaise Jan 2020 #13
He is completely mad. smirkymonkey Jan 2020 #9
At least everyone can see as he 2naSalit Jan 2020 #10
This can't be real. Thermo Jan 2020 #11
Its terrifying, isn't it? PatSeg Jan 2020 #18
The man is so obviously broken. Girard442 Jan 2020 #12
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2020 #14
he lies within lies... spanone Jan 2020 #16
Criminal mentality. Nations agreed before he was born that Hortensis Jan 2020 #17
A person COULD NOT try any harder to be seen as bluestarone Jan 2020 #19

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
8. Syria.
Sat Jan 11, 2020, 02:46 AM
Jan 2020

"The only troops we have left, they're taking the oil." As if. This dumb fuck (and his cult) lives in a separate reality from the rest of us. Nothing that happens in their reality comes close to what's actually going on in our factual reality.

RockRaven

(15,009 posts)
5. "I war crime, we war crime, it's all war crimes, war crimes"
Sat Jan 11, 2020, 12:45 AM
Jan 2020

This fuck-wit is constantly advertising his intent to violate domestic and international law.

Not only does the US have no physical capability to "take the oil" in reality, it would be illegal as shit even if we did.

lapfog_1

(29,226 posts)
6. Even if it wasn't a war crime
Sat Jan 11, 2020, 12:54 AM
Jan 2020

or theft on an enormous scale...

I did the numbers on this concept when he first floated it during the campaign...
it simply isn't possible... there are not enough tankers, not nearly enough storage facilities, to "take" the oil.

The best place to keep oil reserves (and, in fact, the only place that make any economic sense) is in the ground.

The only way to take Iraqi (or Iranian or Saudi) oil is to take the ground on top of the oil and hold it.

Doing anything else is simply not possible right now... and would be prohibitively expensive at some point in the future.

2naSalit

(86,798 posts)
10. At least everyone can see as he
Sat Jan 11, 2020, 03:08 AM
Jan 2020

declines in ability to be presentable in public. Nobody cares since it could hasten his exit with all his drug abuse.

Girard442

(6,085 posts)
12. The man is so obviously broken.
Sat Jan 11, 2020, 06:18 AM
Jan 2020

The only way someone can continue to support him is to be as broken as he is.

Response to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
17. Criminal mentality. Nations agreed before he was born that
Sat Jan 11, 2020, 12:42 PM
Jan 2020

sacking others in war would be a war crime. We of course signed on to that convention. He's had that explained to him, but he's incapable of understanding and feeling the principles.

bluestarone

(17,055 posts)
19. A person COULD NOT try any harder to be seen as
Sat Jan 11, 2020, 01:31 PM
Jan 2020

Complete MENTALLY disturbed individual! (Is this their plan?)

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